At the meeting it was decided that Sherpas and Pakistani porters would set off from camp before midnight, July 31, to start preparing fixed rope going up the mountain.

To reach the summit, climbers must pass through the Bottleneck, an extremely narrow and steep section of ice and snow located beneath a serac, a giant block of ice at the edge of a hanging glacier. Seracs are notoriously unstable. They can crack at any second, sending chunks of ice crashing down onto climbers.

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According to the film, the leader of the Korean team had also agreed to wake up early and prepare fixed rope, but did not.

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When the rest of the group started hiking around 3 a.m on Friday, they found that the lines had not been done properly. They were fixed very close to the Camp 4 site — where they were not needed — and the rope ran out just above the Bottleneck — where they were needed most.

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As a result, the group had to take rope from lower portions of the trail and use it to prepare lines above the Bottleneck, creating serious delays. Further slowing things down were the large number of people pushing for the summit on the same day, due to the narrow weather-window of opportunity.

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By 10 a.m., there was already a traffic jam in the Bottleneck, a portion of the route where hikers should be moving quickly to minimize danger from falling ice.

As the group started to lower Mandic's body down the mountain, it was clear that something was wrong with Baig. He was incoherent and unsteady on his feet — signs of high altitude sickness.

Baig lost his footing and let go of the rope that was attached to Mandic's harness. Without making an attempt to stop his slide, Baig fell to his death.

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Meanwhile, most climbers in the Bottleneck were already on the move again. As it's told in the documentary, the other mountaineers deliberated for about three or four minutes after Mandic's fall before deciding to press on.

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When a climber falls or wanders off the trail, it's an unwritten code of the mountain to leave them for dead, according to the film.

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The first person to reach K2's summit was Spaniard Alberto Zerain at 3 p.m., who was hiking solo. In the film, Norwegian climber Lars Nessa describes Zerain as a "mythic figure." Zerain seems to make it up and down the mountain without much trouble.

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Two members of the Norwegian team, Cecile Skog and Lars Nessa, reached the top around 5 p.m. (Skog's husband, Rolf Bae, was also part of the expedition but did not summit).

But the excitement was short-lived. As the sun went down, and climbers attempted to make their way back down the Bottleneck, a massive slab of ice snapped.

Cecile Skog watched her husband, Rolf Bae, get swept away by ice right in front of her eyes.

The falling ice sliced through the fixed ropes that were needed to get back down the mountain.

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Skog and her team member, Lars Nessa, managed to reach Camp 4 without the lines, but more than a dozen climbers were left trapped in the "death zone" — above 26,000 feet — where temperatures at night can hit minus 40 degrees Fahrenheit and the air is so thin that there's hardly enough oxygen for a human to breathe.

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Chaos ensued. Without the rope, many climbers lost their way. “People were running down, but didn't know where to go, so a lot of people were lost on the mountain on the wrong side, wrong route — and then you have a big problem,” Van Rooijen told The New York Times in the aftermath of the disaster.

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Some people, including McDonnell, Van Rooijen, and Confortola decided to wait until morning to descend the mountain.

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Pemba continued down the mountain in darkness and without ropes, reaching Camp 4 before midnight on Aug. 1.

Van Rooijen set out early Saturday morning before the other two members of his group, but ended up getting lost.

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This is where many of the details get sketchy. According to Confortola, he and McDonnell began descending on Saturday morning, but stopped to help three stranded members from the Korean team.

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After about two hours of unsuccessfully trying to free the Korean climbers, Confortola claims that McDonnell started to hike back up the mountain (he may have been suffering from high altitude sickness at this point and was confused about what he was doing). McDonnell was never seen alive again. He is believed to have been killed by another ice fall.

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Confortola continued to descend after McDonnell allegedly wandered back up, leaving the Korean climbers behind, but he didn't make it all the way to Camp 4.

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Pemba — who has been painted as the hero of the K2 tragedy — managed to rescue Confortola and return to Camp 4.